Author: Bal Phondke
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 270
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8123706197
Description
This volume presenting Indian science fiction cutting across the panoply of regional languages had not been published earlier.
The first Indian science fiction story is said to have been written in Bengali by Jagadish Chandra Bose and around the same time in Marathi by S. B. Ranade. Over the years science fiction had developed in other languages too, like in Tamil, but it has found strong roots in Marathi language primarily and this becomes evident in this anthology too. A comprehensive view of the trends in Indian science fiction can be obtained by going through this compilation of select stories in various Indian languages carefully culled by author-editor Bal Phond ke, who also happens to be the Director of the Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
The Ice Age Cometh
The Impostor
Einstein the Second
A Journey into Darkness
The Man
Ruby
Birthright
Catastrophe in Blue
Time
The Elevation
Dilemma
Venus is Watching
The Life
An Encounter with God
Twice upon a Time
The Second Coming
Rain
Goodbye, Mr Khanna
The Adopted Son